Krzysztof G±siorek
Director of the Folk Dance Group "WARSZAWA"
of the Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education
Krzysztof G±siorek is a graduate of the University of Physical Education in Warsaw (1990) and the Postgraduate Management Studies for Artists and Cultural Promoters at the Department of Management, University of Warsaw (2004)
Throughout his adult life he has shared a professional and emotional connection with the University of Physical Education in Warsaw. As a student, dancer and soloist of the university folk group, he received a dance instructor’s diploma, category I (1988). After graduation he began working with the "Warszawa" ensemble, simultaneously remaining its active dancer until 1996. In the years 1991 – 2003 he worked as a university teacher conducting dance classes (mainly folk and national dances) with the students of the Department of Physical Education. In the years 2003 – 2009 he taught at the Department of Rehabilitation, basing his work on a curriculum that he himself had developed for the purpose of those classes. The primary objective of the activities was to adapt the music and movement exercises, as well as elements of folk, national and ballroom dancing, to the abilities of disabled persons in wheelchairs.
While managing the "Warszawa" Folk Dance Group, Krzysztof G±siorek is actively working with the community of the academic folk ensembles. In the years 1993 – 2001 he served as the Vice President of the Polish Nationwide Council of the Student Song and Dance Ensembles, transformed into the Polish Academic Folk Association (PASF) in 1996. Since 2001, Mr. G±siorek has been serving as the President of the above-mentioned association, which brings together the majority of the folk groups in Poland.
Krzysztof G±siorek is the founder and director of the International Folk Festival "WARSFOLK", which is held every year in Warsaw in the fourth week of August. During its past seven editions, the festival has hosted almost 2000 artists from 64 ensembles, representing 34 countries located on four continents.
Mr. G±siorek was the producer of the 3rd International Folklore Day, organized by the Warsaw district of Targówek (29.08.2010 r.) with participants from Belarus, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine, and two Polish ensembles.
He was also a juror at the international folklore festivals: in Bursa (Turkey) in 1996 and in St. Petersburg (Russia) in 2010.